Queen of Great Britain Victoria - The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 183... — Part 2 | Audiobook

🌐 Listen and download this audiobook on 3ords.com: https://3ords.com/en/book/the-letters... 🎧 Use our Telegram bot: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g20023 ⏪ Previous part:    • Queen of Great Britain Victoria - The lett...   ⏩ Next part:    • Queen of Great Britain Victoria - The lett...   📚 TOP-3 similar books:    • Cook - The Life of Florence Nightingale, v...      • Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe - L...      • Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - A Complete Gui...   📚 The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. — Part 2 of 3 ✍️ Author: Queen of Great Britain Victoria 📖 Excerpt from the book: Footnote 1: A set of volumes containing the Queen's letters to Lord John Russell came into our hands too late to be made use of for the present publication. It became obvious at once that it was impossible to deal with these papers exhaustively. They would provide material for a historical series extending to several hundred volumes. Moreover, on the other hand, there are many gaps, as a great deal of the business of State was transacted by interviews of which no official record is preserved. His Majesty the King having decided that no attempt should be made to publish these papers in extenso, it was necessary to determine upon some definite principle of selection. It became clear that the only satisfactory plan was to publish specimens of such documents as would serve to bring out the development of the Queen's character and disposition, and to give typical instances of her methods in dealing with political and social matters—to produce, in fact, a book for British citizens and British subjects, rather than a book for students of political history. That the inner working of the unwritten constitution of the country; that some of the unrealised checks and balances; that the delicate equipoise of the component parts of our executive machinery, should stand revealed, was inevitable. We have thought it best, throughout, to abstain from unnecessary comment and illustration. The period is so recent, and has been so often traversed by historians and biographers, that it appeared to us a waste of valuable space to attempt to reconstruct the history of the years from which this correspondence has been selected, especially as Sir Theodore Martin, under the auspices of the Queen herself, has dealt so minutely and exhaustively with the relations of the Queen's innermost circle to the political and social life of the time. It is tempting, of course, to add illustrative anecdotes from the abundant Biographies and Memoirs of the period; but our aim has been to infringe as little ... 🏷 Tags: Queen Victoria,British history,historical letters,royalty correspondence,19th century history,Victorian era,British monarchy,historical non-fiction,political history,Queen Victoria letters,British politics,historical sources,audio book #its3ords #audiobook #book #books #audiobooks 🎧 Listen on Telegram: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g20023 🌐 Listen on website: https://3ords.com/en/book/the-letters... 📢 Our channel: https://t.me/its3ords ⏪ Previous part:    • Queen of Great Britain Victoria - The lett...   ⏩ Next part:    • Queen of Great Britain Victoria - The lett...   ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This content is produced automatically with speech synthesis technology and may contain inaccuracies. This audiobook is narrated using an AI-generated voice. The voice does not represent any real person. We do not collaborate with or have any affiliation with any actors, announcers, or celebrities. 3ords.com is a technical platform intended for the automated processing and presentation of textual materials in audio form. The platform may contain materials, authors, rights holders or mentioned persons who hold special legal statuses under the laws of various countries. The platform performs no editorial selection of works and expresses neither agreement nor disagreement with the authors' opinions. Materials may be supplied by users or obtained from openly available internet sources. All works belong to their lawful rights holders. 3ords.com claims no rights to these materials and is not their author, publisher or rights holder. The project is informational and educational in nature and receives no commercial benefit. We encourage you to support authors and buy official editions. ❗ Upon a lawful claim from a rights holder, or if prohibited materials are discovered, the content will be removed immediately on request. Contact: LibertyStartups@proton.me